Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Press editor seems to take quite seriously the New Masses' recent "exposure" of General Krivitsky. I should have expected TIME to be sophisticated enough to have looked into the following points: i) Why does the New Masses charge merely that Krivitsky-Ginsberg can't shoot a rifle and has never seen Stalin (two charges that by their nature can't be proved or disproved and anyway don't mean anything) while avoiding any attack on his main claim, which is that he was for some years chief of the Russian Military Intelligence Service for Western...
...Englishman I am obviously pleased to see on the front of your recent issue [May 15] that very excellent and natural picture of King George VI, but when I turn to the editorial under the heading Great Britain .and find on p. 25 such words ". . . for which the British public, almost forgetting that Edward VIII ever happened ..." I am singularly disgusted...
...which convinced many an observer, expert at noting recent trends & trivia of politics, that if the Democratic Party was still sponsoring the New Deal in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt was their man. Who but he had the personality to be elected on a spending-lending platform? Harry Hopkins? Harold Ickes? Bob Jackson? Henry Wallace? Nobody else but Franklin Roosevelt, reasoned the observers...
...Whitsunday; a ?5.000,000 South African loan was subscribed in 15 minutes; unemployment had decreased by 395,000 since February. In weather so exceptional the Derby was called Heatwave Derby, all young men between 20 and 21 registered for the draft, and labor's periodic stirring, signalized by recent rent strikes that involved 40,000 in Birmingham, grew as it grows each spring...
...India, Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi publicly apologized for his recent hunger strike victory over the autocratic Thakore Saheb of Rajkot. It was coercion, said the Mahatma, to have accepted British intercession. "I should have been content to die if I could not have melted the Thakore Saheb's heart...